AP English Literature Seminar
Independent Poetry Study- DiYanni Textbook
Listed below are the assignments and due dates for your independent work in the DiYanni textbook. By reviewing how to read and analyze poetry, learning the types of poetry and the elements of poetry, you will be prepared to analyze poetry for the multiple-choice and essay portions of the AP Literature Exam. For types and terms notes, you may make lists or note cards. Answer assigned questions on individual poems on separate lined paper. Be sure to include the title/author and page number of each poem.
All assignments are from the DiYanni literature textbook.You will need your book each day for in-class discussions and writing.
Friday, 1/8Read Chapter 12, p. 763-774.
Read Chapter 12 “Types of Poetry,” p.775-778; take notes on terms in bold type.
Chapter 13 Elements of Poetry, p. 779-842.
Speaker and Tone, p779-787; take notes on terms.
Read: “War is Kind,” Stephen Crane, p. 780-81;
Monday, 1/11Chapter 13: Diction, p. 787-793; take notes on terms.
Bring bookRead: “It is a beauteous evening,” William Wordsworth, p. 792; answer Questions for Reflection 1 & 2, p. 792.
Read: “Delight in Disorder,” Robert Herrick, p. 792-93; answer Questions for Reflection 1 & 2, p. 793.
Wednesday, 1/13Chapter 13: Imagery, p. 793-94; read and take notes.
Bring bookRead: “Meeting at Night,” Robert Browning, p. 797; answer Question for Reflection, p.797;
“Neutral Tones,” Thomas Hardy, p. 798; answer Questions for Reflection 1 & 2, p. 798-99. Compare tone of “Neutral Tones” to Browning’s “Meeting at Night.”
Thursday, 1/14Chapter 13: Figures of Speech: Simile and Metaphor
p.799-801; read and take notes.
Read “That time of year thou may’st in me behold,” William Shakespeare, p. 800-01, and read explanation.
Friday, 1/15Chapter 13: Symbolism and Allegory, p. 804-07; take
Bring booknotes.
Read: “A Poison Tree,” William Blake, 8p. 807-08;
“Virtue,” George Herbert, p. 809
“Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson, p. 810.
Tuesday, 1/19Chapter 13: Syntax, p. 810-11
Bring bookRead: The Man He Killed,” Thomas Hardy, p. 813-14; answer Questions for Reflection: 1-3, p. 814;
“An Irish Airman foresees His Death,” William Butler Yeats, p. 814-15; answer Questions for Reflection 1 & 2, P. 815;
“Me up at does,” ee cummings, p. 816; answer Questions for Reflection, 1 & 2, p. 816;
Wednesday, 1/20Chapter 13: Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance, p.817-819; take notes.
Read: “In the Valley of the Elwy,” Gerard Manley Hopkins, p. 819-820, and explanation.
Read: “The Universe,” May Swenson, p. 823
Read:“The Word Plum,” Helen Chasin, p. 824
Friday, 1/22Chapter 13: Rhythm and Meter, p. 824-830; take notes.
Bring book.Read-“The Red Wheelbarrow,” William Carlos Williams, p. 831-32.
Monday, 1/25Chapter 13: Structure: Closed Form and Open Form
Bring bookp.832-33; take notes.
Read: “On First Looking at Chapman’s Homer,” John Keats, p. 834;
“When I heard the learn’d astronomer,” Walt Whitman, p. 834-35;
ee cummings leaf poem, p. 835-36., and “Buffalo Bill’s,” 836-37;
“The Dance: William Carlos Williams, p. 838;
“O Taste and See,” Denise Levertov, p. 838;
“The Waking,” Theodore Roethke, 838-39.
Chapter 13: theme, p. 841; take notes.
Read: “Crumbling is not an instant’s Act,” Emily Dickinson, p. 841-42
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